Linacre College is proud to host Shirley Williams’s lecture “The value of Europe and European values”.

Shirley Williams has recently retired from the House of Lords, after 50 years in politics, to concentrate on the forthcoming European Referendum. She was a Labour cabinet minister in the 1970s before becoming one of the Gang of Four who formed the Social Democratic Party. She has been a politics professor at Harvard and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.